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Author:   João Biehl ,  Torben Eskerod
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.862kg
ISBN:  

9780520272958

ISBN 10:   0520272951
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   12 October 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Dead Alive, Dead Outside, Alive Inside PART ONE. VITA A Zone of Social Abandonment Brazil Citizenship PART TWO. CATARINA AND THE ALPHABET The Life of the Mind A Society of Bodies Inequality Ex-Human The House and the Animal Love is the illusion of the abandoned Social Psychosis An Illness of Time God, Sex, and Agency PART THREE. THE MEDICAL ARCHIVE Public Psychiatry Her Life as a Typical Patient Democratization and the Right to Health Economic Change and Mental Suffering Medical Science End of a Life Voices Care and Exclusion Migration and Model Policies Women, Poverty, and Social Death I am like this because of life The Sense of Symptoms Pharmaceutical Being PART FOUR. THE FAMILY Ties Ataxia Her House Brothers Children, In-Laws, and the Ex-Husband Adoptive Parents To want my body as a medication, my body Everyday Violence PART FIVE. BIOLOGY AND ETHICS Pain Human Rights Value Systems Gene Expression and Social Abandonment Family Tree A Genetic Population A Lost Chance PART SIX. THE DICTIONARY Underneath was this, which I do not attempt to name Book I Book II Book III Book IV Book V Book VI Book VII Book VIII Book IX Book X Book XI Book XII Book XIII Book XIV Book XV Book XVI Book XVII Book XVIII Book XIX Conclusion: A way to the words Postscript: I am part of the origins, not just of language, but of people Afterword Return to Vita Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Joao Biehl is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. His website is www.joaobiehl.net. Torben Eskerod is an artist and works as a freelance photographer in Copenhagen.

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